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This is a list of stars arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2...36 KB (1,312 words) - 05:08, 27 April 2024
The dwarf planet Pluto has five natural satellites. In order of distance from Pluto, they are Charon, Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra. Charon, the largest...38 KB (3,586 words) - 02:33, 26 April 2024
Carina (/kəˈraɪnə, kəˈriːnə/ kə-RY-nə, -REE-) is a constellation in the southern sky. Its name is Latin for the keel of a ship, and it was the southern...17 KB (2,045 words) - 15:23, 17 March 2024
The Atlas LV-3B, Atlas D Mercury Launch Vehicle or Mercury-Atlas Launch Vehicle, was a human-rated expendable launch system used as part of the United...30 KB (3,748 words) - 16:30, 18 February 2024
The Juno I was a four-stage American space launch vehicle, used to launch lightweight payloads into low Earth orbit. The launch vehicle was used between...12 KB (919 words) - 08:56, 22 January 2024
The Allen Telescope Array (ATA), formerly known as the One Hectare Telescope (1hT), is a radio telescope array dedicated to astronomical observations and...38 KB (4,374 words) - 22:45, 23 February 2024- Luna 22 (Ye-8-LS series) was an uncrewed space mission, part of the Soviet Luna program, also called Lunik 22. Luna 22 was a lunar orbiter mission. The...5 KB (331 words) - 05:54, 28 February 2024
NGC 6072 is a planetary nebulae in the southern constellation of Scorpius. It has a dynamical age of 104 years. Its circumstellar envelope is likely to...4 KB (290 words) - 18:29, 18 January 2024
Abu al-Hasan 'Ali ibn Abi al-Said 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Ahmad ibn Yunus ibn Abd al-'Ala al-Sadafi al-Misri (Egyptian Arabic: ابن يونس; c. 950 – 1009) was...16 KB (1,752 words) - 02:38, 27 April 2024
NGC 1428 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Fornax, 75 million light years from Earth. It is a member of the Fornax Cluster. Its diameter is...1 KB (78 words) - 21:11, 28 June 2023
NGC 1341 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax, 86 million light years away. It is one of the most distant members of the Fornax Cluster...1 KB (77 words) - 15:44, 18 January 2024- Star One D2, is a Brazilian geostationary communications satellite ordered by Embratel and designed and manufactured by Maxar Technologies on the SSL 1300...3 KB (133 words) - 05:25, 3 January 2022
Crow Observatory is a historic observatory housed in the Crow Hall in the Physics Department on the Danforth Campus of Washington University in St. Louis...2 KB (197 words) - 17:01, 24 July 2021
The Rossiter–McLaughlin effect is a spectroscopic phenomenon observed when an object moves across the face of a rotating star. The star is seen to undergo...6 KB (624 words) - 20:00, 14 April 2024- NGTS-13b is an exoplanet that was discovered by NGTS. It takes 4.12 days to orbit its host star and its discovery was announced in January 2021. The planet...3 KB (181 words) - 13:08, 14 May 2023
Dragon C209 is the second Cargo Dragon 2 spacecraft, and the second in a line of International Space Station resupply craft which replaced the Dragon capsule...5 KB (290 words) - 14:45, 30 April 2024
Brorfelde Observatory (Danish: Brorfelde Observatoriet; obs. code: 054) is an astronomical observatory located in Brorfelde near Holbæk, Denmark. It is...4 KB (266 words) - 19:23, 15 March 2024
The Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey is a project to exploit the latest generation of ground-based wide-field survey facilities to study cosmology...3 KB (312 words) - 18:34, 8 January 2023- GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey (GASS) is a large targeted survey at Arecibo Observatory that has been underway since 2008 to measure the neutral hydrogen content...1 KB (93 words) - 01:32, 11 October 2021
The University of Hawaiʻi 88-inch (2.24-meter) telescope—called UH88, UH2.2, or simply 88 by members of the local astronomical community—is situated at...8 KB (490 words) - 03:22, 21 March 2023
